Meschiya Lake was unknown to me until I heard her tunes coming over the speakers at the relatively hidden upper-east-side arts club, Fair Folks & A Goat. Fair Folks has a twin space in New Orleans, and through this umbilicus of arts and culture, Meschiya and her band, The Little Big Horns was to...
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where do you move, where ya movin’ from? It’s yourself/It’s yourself Modest Mouse, “Never-Ending Math Equation” Previously we touched upon the visual nature of propaganda; what has happened? People have learned to fight over images, the discussion of identity politics has become a common motif in mainstream media. This happened around the same time...
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The intense attraction and utter vulnerability that characterizes fascination always reminds me of childhood, as if the wide-eyed, excited kid within an individual somehow surfaces and takes grip, providing an escape from the daily pressures of deadlines, credit card bills, career frustration, commuting, dinner plans, or the dreaded “what will everyone think?” juggernaut that...
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In my office on the far wall is a small series of seven different pre-Wright Brothers 19th century engravings of designs for flying machines. Answer to your first question of what they look like: See below for awesome. Answer to the second question of what I do for a living: Bond Villain. The pictures...
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we live on a half-lit stage, a concrete platform.. waiting it’s grand appearance, it’s ultimate performance.. dark & light, kissed infinitely by the sun. day becomes night, night into day- the anticipation of change, of an end, or a beginning. the cracks in the walls take their last breath, a soft exhale of tired...
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So your poetry tip of the week is a hot one. You need to get with this program. Will Alexander, a poet from Los Angeles, has been actively publishing in small presses and little magazines for the better part of two decades. He has just come out with a book under the New Directions...
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Take that thing. You know the one I’m talking about, right? That thing that you want more than any other thing in the world. That thing that Dr. Seuss so elegantly called a thneed. And we’re not talking material things, even though those might help along the way. We’re talking desire here. We’re talking...
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I’m gripped by a fascination with hands. Maybe it stems from being an art student and spending so much time handling brushes, cameras, and tools (and, lost in thought, staring at my hands). Back when I was a kid, a cousin showed me how she could make a vein in the back of her...
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hi friends, So, now a close reading of Rush’s ‘Limelight’…which I acknowledge is totally inappropriate for a prog-rock song, because that’s exactly what those nerds wanted when they wrote it, but here goes… (oh, by the way, JUDITH BUTLER!!) The theory that will go into this is comes from Butler’s amazing books Gender Trouble...
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Are people’s heads getting bigger, or are they just wearing smaller hats? In the past few years, fashion has spawned a major resurgence of the fascinator- a fancy term for tiny hats of British decent with lots of swooshy, feathery additives. Such hats disappeared from fashion in the 1970’s, but now one would be...
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